Diakhoumba Gassama is a human rights lawyer and program officer for the Hewlett Foundation’s Gender Equity and Governance Program. She speaks with Ufahamu Africa fellow Maseke Rioba this week about the practice of FGM, or female genital mutilation. Listen for a conversation that incorporates both personal experience and the cultural and legal context surrounding FGM across the continent.
We also announce the Student Reflections Essay Competition! Independently or as part of a class assignment, we invite students to submit one-page reflection essays responding to one of our episodes by May 1.
Books, Links, & Articles
- Making the Mark: Gender, Identity, and Genital Cutting (Volume 93) (Ohio RIS Africa Series) by Miroslava Prazak
- “Three important lessons from a new book on female genital cutting in Kenya.” Analysis by Kim Yi Dionne
- Diakhoumba Gassama, Program Officer in the Gender Equity and Governance Program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- AWP: Unanswered Cries by Osman Conteh
- “Rites of passage and sustainable development in traditional Africa: reflections for contemporary society.” by Elizabeth Onyii Ezenweke
- Moolaadé directed by Ousmane Sembène.
- The River Between by Ngugi wa Thiong’o